Last weekend I was in a fitting room and overheard a disappointing conversation between a mother and her daughter. The mom was practically yelling at her daughter, “You used to be a size zero and one. Now you’re a seven!?” While I couldn’t see either of them, I could hear the pain in the girl’s voice…
Did you think spring cleaning was limited to your bedroom or your attic? Guess again. Now that the time to pack up the baggy sweatshirts and trade them in from oh-so-revealing-the-winter-wasn’t-your-best-friend clothing is approaching, it’s time to do some cleaning…. of the pantry and your goals. The winter is an easy time for women to…
If there’s one thing that really annoys me, it’s turning on the television and seeing self-righteous nutritionists on the news wagging a finger at the camera, saying, “don’t eat this, because it’ll make you fat,” and “eat this, but don’t eat that.” Oy. It makes me want to jump through the TV screen and yell…
I live in New York City. I can’t walk down a street without seeing images of perfect-looking women; magazine and store ads with beautiful, waifish women glisten on taxis, buses and billboards. When you are faced with that kind of pressure to fit into an ideal, it can be impossible to love the body God…